Thermohaline Convection with Two Stable Regimes of Flow

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Abstract

Free convection between two interconnected reservoirs, due to density differences maintained by heat and salt transfer to the reservoirs, is shown to occur sometimes in two different stable regimes, and may possibly be analogous to certain features of the oseanic circulation.

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Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life below water

Publication Details

Published in: Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volume 13, Issue 2, pp. 224-230

DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v13i2.9491

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